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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

1362.0. "Shell widget positioning query" by KERNEL::WOOD (Richard Wood - UK Workstation Support) Mon Sep 04 1989 08:31

Hi,

I have a customer who is trying to position the shell widget of
his application, at the moment it appears top left corner of the
screen (he is using Pascal/UIL).

I have read several notes concerning the use of DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT
but none specify or define the syntax used, consequently I've had
no luck myself using them. Also, it is not documented and I've also
heard rumblings that use of DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT is unsupported. That
being the case could the guy get round it by having a 'dummy' shell
widget that perhaps could be made invisible - just a thought !

It'd bean idea if you could have a DECW$'appl_name'.DAT file enabling
positioning of the shell widget for each application.

Anybody got any thoughts about this, I'd like clear up alot
of querys about this problem.

Cheers for any input

Rich

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1362.1 PSW::WINALSKI Careful with that VAX, Eugene Mon Sep 04 1989 21:05 21

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1362.1		PSW::WINALSKI	Careful with that VAX, Eugene	`Mon Sep 04 1989 21:05`	21
	The Toolkit seems to look for a file named DECW$USER_DEFAULTS:classname.DAT as a resource file, where "classname" is the string that you specified in the class_name parameter to XtInitialize(). Within this file you can put resource definitions. To set the x and y offsets for the main applicatio shell, you can put these lines in that file: classname.x: xoffset classname.y: yoffset where "xoffset" and "yoffset" are the pixel coordinates you wish the upper left corner of the application shell to have. Resource file names are case-sensitive. As you have heard, this is all unsupported on VMS. The other way to set the X and Y is to set the DwtNx and DwtNy attributes on the shell widget returned by XtInitialize() using XtSetValues(). Do this before you realize the widget. --PSW

The Toolkit seems to look for a file named DECW$USER_DEFAULTS:classname.DAT as
a resource file, where "classname" is the string that you specified in the
class_name parameter to XtInitialize().  Within this file you can put resource
definitions.  To set the x and y offsets for the main applicatio shell, you can
put these lines in that file:

	classname.x:	xoffset
	classname.y:	yoffset

where "xoffset" and "yoffset" are the pixel coordinates you wish the upper left
corner of the application shell to have.  Resource file names are
case-sensitive.

As you have heard, this is all unsupported on VMS.

The other way to set the X and Y is to set the DwtNx and DwtNy attributes on
the shell widget returned by XtInitialize() using XtSetValues().  Do this before
you realize the widget.

--PSW